Idea: science packs for schools?

2016-11-25 Thread Matthias Kirschner
I'd like to get some feedback about some ideas floating around my head at the moment, and thought that some of you might be able to help here. I was talking with some people who would like to fund some concrete Free Software activities, focusing on research and education. One idea which came up

Re: Idea: science packs for schools?

2016-11-25 Thread Jonas Forsslund
Hi, Matthias, In general I like these kinds of ideas. The whole Raspberry Pi concept is well developed. What I have been thinking recently however, is that there is perhaps an overfocus on hardware. Imagine instead a virtual small computer easily accessed and programmed from a within a web browser

Re: Idea: science packs for schools?

2016-11-25 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno ven 25 nov 2016 alle 14:32, Matthias Kirschner ha scritto: If you like it, do you have an idea how you could make sure that children who are interested in that are connected around Europe? (E.g. in Germany there is something called "Jugend hackt" -- youth is hacking -- Is there someth

Re: Idea: science packs for schools?

2016-11-25 Thread Roger Sicart Rams
Hello all, I find this type of initiative very interesting, I'd like to have some similar educational project when I was in school. I think the software approach commented by Jonas could be more affordable, in terms of management, and more cheap too. Said that, the idea of a kit to hack is really

Re: Implementing a code of conduct?

2016-11-25 Thread Roger Sicart Rams
Hi there, I'm a little bit late for this thread but I'll give my answers anyway: Yes and Yes. I found this Code of Conduct very common sense. See you around, best, On 11/03/2016 03:19 PM, Erik Albers wrote: > Dear all, > > we (the local coordinators, country coordinators, team coordinators, t

Re: Idea: science packs for schools?

2016-11-25 Thread amunizp
>interesting to propose it as course in schools or online (like on >Coursera or a similar site). > Like 'Road to digital freedom' online course? https://eliademy.com/catalog/road-to-the-free-digital-society.html -- -- Andres (he/him/his) Ham United Group Richmond Makerlabs ___

Re: Idea: science packs for schools?

2016-11-25 Thread amunizp
El 25 de noviembre de 2016 13:32:25 GMT+00:00, Matthias Kirschner escribió: >I'd like to get some feedback about some ideas floating around my head >at the moment, and thought that some of you might be able to help here. > > >I was talking with some people who would like to fund some concrete >Fr

Re: Idea: science packs for schools?

2016-11-25 Thread Roger Sicart Rams
Well, that could be part of the course, but I meant something more like getting hands dirty hacking the hardware/software kit. On 11/25/2016 06:22 PM, amunizp wrote: >> interesting to propose it as course in schools or online (like on >> Coursera or a similar site). >> > Like 'Road to digital fre

Re: Idea: science packs for schools?

2016-11-25 Thread François Revol
Hello, On 25/11/2016 20:23, Roger Sicart Rams wrote: Well, that could be part of the course, but I meant something more like getting hands dirty hacking the hardware/software kit. Although the idea is nice (and I did start on old 8bit computers in the class), there are also ways to learn cod

Re: Idea: science packs for schools?

2016-11-25 Thread Paul Sutton
I think Arduino (or clones) could be really good here, i demoed a few simple projects at a secondary (11 - 18) science fair and got some interest, things like temperature etc, thing with arduino it is more complex but no oS to worry about so you write, compile, upload, so potentially better fo

Re: Idea: science packs for schools?

2016-11-25 Thread Paul Sutton
On 25/11/16 19:30, François Revol wrote: > Hello, > > On 25/11/2016 20:23, Roger Sicart Rams wrote: >> Well, that could be part of the course, but I meant something more like >> getting hands dirty hacking the hardware/software kit. >> > > Although the idea is nice (and I did start on old 8bit

Re: Idea: science packs for schools?

2016-11-25 Thread Paul Sutton
Further to all this https://projects.drogon.net/lmc/ little man computer, is a simulator i think for assembly language teaching. On 25/11/16 20:11, Paul Sutton wrote: > I think Arduino (or clones) could be really good here, i demoed a few > simple projects at a secondary (11 - 18) science fair

Re: Idea: science packs for schools?

2016-11-25 Thread François Revol
On 25/11/2016 22:42, Paul Sutton wrote: Further to all this https://projects.drogon.net/lmc/ little man computer, is a simulator i think for assembly language teaching. Yet another option is to dig out old computers like Apple II, ORIC, ... And there are FLOSS tools now to use them, for ex.

Re: Article "FRAND And The Clash Of Industries"

2016-11-25 Thread Thomas Doczkal
I agree with you. As a non-native speaker it's really difficult to read the text. I thought from the standpoint of translating this text but I am not able to do this. I will re-read it later maybe reading it twice make something more clear. Regards, Thomas On July 18, 2016 11:21:16 AM GMT+02

Re: Idea: science packs for schools?

2016-11-25 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday 25. November 2016 22.49.13 François Revol wrote: > On 25/11/2016 22:42, Paul Sutton wrote: > > Further to all this > > > > https://projects.drogon.net/lmc/ > > > > little man computer, is a simulator i think for assembly language > > teaching. > > Yet another option is to dig out old c

Re: Idea: science packs for schools?

2016-11-25 Thread François Revol
On 26/11/2016 01:21, Paul Boddie wrote: They actually have a room of BBC Micros at Bletchley Park for schoolchildren to use, showing them what computing used to be about and confronting them with things like BASIC and maybe even assembly language (although I doubt that they really have time for B

Re: Idea: science packs for schools?

2016-11-25 Thread Mattia Monga
Hi, at the University of Milan, Italy, we have this Aladdin project (http://aladdin.unimi.it/) to introduce computer science to children (since 4th grade). Among the most successful initiatives there are: - Algomotricity: similar to cs unplugged, it aims at exposing pupils to a specific informatic